2/14/23
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Coming Thursday
Right to Carry (RTC) Laws - “a law that specifies if and how citizens are allowed to have a firearm on their person or nearby (for example, in a citizen’s car) in public.”2
Two contradictory analyses:
John J. Donohue et al., Right‐to‐Carry Laws and Violent Crime: A Comprehensive Assessment Using Panel Data and a State‐Level Synthetic Control Analysis. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 16,2 (2019).
David B. Mustard & John Lott. Crime, Deterrence, and Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns. Coase-Sandor Institute for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 41, (1996).
There are a whole bunch of different data files we’ll be using…
👉 Your Turn: Load the data into RStudio. It will take a while…so just let it get started.